Carmela Pinto McIntire

Carmela Pinto McIntire lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she moved after a long teaching career at Florida International University, the state university in Miami, Florida. She is getting to know her new city through helping establish a grassroots community organizing effort focused on local needs. She is at work on a memoir about her family life in Miami. An excerpt from her work in progress, “Prelude: Weight” has appeared in the anthology Crone Rising (JazzHouse Publications 2021), edited by T. Curry and Seamus King. Her essay “Weight/Loss” is also adapted from her memoir (https://www.theintima.org/weight-loss-carmela-mcintire).